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a few more impressions:
- the drive path recorder feature in parking assistant is hands down the best feature of this LCI. I have a carport that was built in the 90s when cars werent as wide and its requires me to pay attention every time I pull in, and the driveway itself is curved. I taught the path to this car and it pulls in flawlessly every time. a tremendous feature. Really want this on my next car. - the augmented reality view while driving is pretty cool, fairly useless but cool. - the cooled seats actually blow cold air on you now. works way, way better than my pre-LCI. seats got so cold I had to turn it off. - they removed the sensor on the idrive screen that would present buttons and options to click on when your finger got close to the screen. that was always a cool party trick - in my car whenever you hovered over each of the seat adjustment buttons and the screen told you which part of the seat was going to be moved. They still have sensors, but not enough, as you move your finger up and down on each control, the screen isnt as specific about what each button does. another cost cutting move. - the menus are somehow less customizable... You cant do tiles, or have multiple layouts. and why is live vehicle a tile to itself lol - the headlights arent as bright as the pre-LCI. - on my car, the turn signal lights are so bright I can see it reflecting off street signs and traffic lights. The turn signals on this x7 are much more muted. - the scroll wheel on the right side of the steering wheel used to scroll songs lags a lot more when pulling up the playlist than the pre-LCI. - the most infuriating part: i keep getting a 'distracted driver please pay attention' warning while in assisted driving mode (not assisted driving plus). I have my hands on the steering wheel but it still gives me the warning if my eyes aren't glued to the road. Even looking off the road to look at the idrive screen to turn on the climate controls in the screen (since they removed the buttons) triggers that distracted driver warning. it was so annoying on my long drive that I cant relax fully in my car because whenever im doing something the warning goes off. On mine, the distracted driver warning only comes up when using assisted driving plus, as long as your hand is on the wheel you can mess around with the idrive screen. they somehow made the assisted driving experience worse with this nanny cam. Last edited by thereef510; 11-23-2023 at 12:25 PM.. |
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As for the cool seat, seems likely bmw finally got their head out of the dungeons, implemented the cool seat like how the industry has done, kind of admitting suck way really sucks, the blow way is the right way. 😂
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I just got my X5 40i back from service and it was updated to ID8.5 (11/2023.30).
I'm happy to say that one of my top pet peeves has been fixed! The trip information now goes away after several seconds where before you were stuck with it on the gauge cluster when you pushed the top button on the turn signal arm. I haven't had time to play around with the rest, but as long as improvments continue to happen then I'm happy. Rob |
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Playing around with it more, I think ID8.5 took a BIG step backward with the home screen widgets and customization. You cannot really pick what widgets you want any more, except to just scroll through the list of what's available and leave it at a certain position showing whatever. You cannot re-order how widgets appear and if there are two you want and they are not next to each other in the list, there isn't anything you can do. You cannot even choose which side of the screen you want your widgets on. ID7 still did it best I think.
Remember how all the lighting turns red in sport mode? Well now the date widget text turns red too. That's just going too far with hardcoding changes that most users probably don't want happening. Rob |
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I was able to find how to access rest stops on my route, but in idrive 7 there was a tile that would just show you rest stops, and construction, traffic on your route. there's no such tile here, you can get to it if you want to but its just not there by default. I never found a weather tile either, now that could be because my car hasnt been 'activated' by the dealer. again, overall its nice and clean and gets the job done, but those of us who have used and loved idrive 7, this certainly is a step back when they could have done so much more with the additional screen real estate. |
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I ride in 50e yesterday in a company group lunch. A Coworker just bought one and showing us. I actually like the interior/ID8. It feels modern. I like AR. Edrive power is significantly above 45e. 50e feels like a proper EV while 45e feels like Nissan Leaf. 😂
Exterior is more of a mixed. I like the tail light better. But overall, I think preLCI has a better present, feels bigger. From far away, I almost think it is an x3. The front of LCI with laser headlight looks better IMO. The black mask of MSport package on light color doesn’t do it for me.
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How to get to AR to work again. Updated SW to 7/2023 and AR view is gone. Its gimmicky yes but dont like that its gone. Also dunno how to turn off the lights if the car is on . Coming from F15 with adaptive these adaptive m shadow line lights are meh…they look great but really nothing special whilst driving, that is my REAL dissapointment with this car. For many other things the car is abs great.
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